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Linda Willing is a retired career fire officer and currently works with emergency services agencies and other organizations on issues of leadership development, decision-making, and diversity management through her company, RealWorld Training and Consulting. She is also an adjunct instructor and curriculum advisor with the National Fire Academy. Willing is the author of On the Line: Women Firefighters Tell Their Stories. Willing has a bachelor’s degree in American studies, a master’s degree in organization development and is a certified mediator. She is a member of the FireRescue1/Fire Chief Editorial Advisory Board. Connect with Willing via email.

Shannon Pieper has 15 years of experience in public safety media and communications. She serves as senior director of Marketing Content for Lexipol. She was previously editorial director for PennWell Public Safety, publisher of FireRescue Magazine and Law Officer Magazine. Pieper has a bachelor’s degree in English from Indiana University and a master’s degree in written communication from National-Louis University in Illinois. Connect with Shannon via email or LinkedIn.

Emily Pearce, BS, EMT-P, FAWM, DiMM is a paramedic and third-year medical student at the University of New Mexico. Emily has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and has been involved in EMS since 2008. She has worked as an EMT-Basic in rural Virginia, a search and rescue paramedic for the National Park Service in Grand Canyon National Park, and a prehospital educator and researcher at UNM.

Marianne Meyers, BS, is a third-year medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine interested in pursuing emergency medicine. Previously, she was a member of the Santa Clara University collegiate EMS squad where she received her B.S. in Public Health Science. Additionally, she has worked with the King County Public Health Department in Seattle, Washington studying EMT naloxone administration.

Yoona is a branded content project lead with Lexipol Brand Studio. She frequently covers public safety technology. Her bylines have appeared on The New York Times, Crain’s New York Business, the Chicago Tribune and many more. Yoona is working on getting her master of science in public health at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health.

Rachel Zoch is a branded content project lead for Lexipol, where she has written about public safety products and issues important to police, fire, EMS and corrections since 2015. A University of Texas journalism graduate, she previously worked the copy desk of a local daily newspaper and served as managing editor of a trade magazine for the multifamily housing industry.

Kirstin Lurtz is an attorney with Lexipol. She has 25 years of experience including as a litigator and legal advisor. She was the principal litigator for a large county government in Oregon, defending the county in civil rights and employment discrimination claims. She also provided advice on a myriad of topics to the county sheriff’s office, including policy development, training, jail inspection, daily operations and special teams.

Roger Buhlis is a training developer for Lexipol. He has 26 years of experience in law enforcement, during which he served as a field training officer, crime scene investigator, traffic (motorcycle) enforcement and coordinator of the Problem-Based Learning Police Training Program. As a sergeant, Roger supervised patrol teams, the jail facility, the property section and the Police Training Officer Program. He spent three years as an investigator in the Professional Standards Unit (Internal Affairs). He is a graduate of the California POST Master Instructor Program and was assigned to the Napa Valley College Criminal Justice Training Center to work with Academy Class 50 as the Recruit Training Officer in 2002. He served as the adjutant to four different patrol bureau commanders, first as an officer and later, as a sergeant. Roger facilitated courses for the California POST Supervisory Leadership Institute for 10 years through 2019. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in adult education.

Jan Gaughan is an editor on Lexipol’s Editorial Services team and lives in Arkansas.

William S. Westfall is currently President of the Gallagher - Westfall Group of Indiana where he manages, develops and provides a wide range of leadership, supervision and management services to the public sector. He has provided, liability, leadership and supervisory training to thousands of police officers and public sector personnel in nearly every state in the United States as well as having been featured as a guest speaker on the Law Enforcement Television Network (LETN), the Fire Emergency Television Network (FETN), The University of Portsmouth, England, General Session Speaker for the 1997 ASLET Conference and the 2006 ILEETA conference. He is well known for practical but powerful motivational and inspirational learning experiences. Contact Bill Westfall